Twenty Years After

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald contains a personal narrative that has shown a glimpse of Fitzgerald’s life. Throughout Fitzgerald’s life he has published many novels, but before his death he was considered to be a failure. The award winning novel was published on April 10, 1925, and is a true masterpiece. Fitzgerald incorporates many themes and messages for the reader to understand why the novel was truly written. First, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald contains the main key of…

From the 1900s to the 1920s, womens fashion has developed throughout time. In the 1900s women that were fashionable at this time were to be expected to wear long dresses and take two annual trips to Paris. As time passed and the roaring twenties came to place, women started to show their true colors. Womens style of dressing as well as their hair became known as the flappers. Many designers became known, and are still being used up to this day, for instance, Coco Chanel. During this time, it was…

The rising of the Theatre of the Absurd in Europe is mainly a theatrical expression of existing dilemmas of post-war Europe while American didn’t experience such spiritual crisis directly caused by war. With American’s economy growing into an unprecedented prosperity，it became the superpower thus made marvelous achievements in military, technology, outer space and in other fields. The expansion of the middle class as well as the increasing of the income has reached the peak and it seemed that…

In both texts the authors present a corrupt and absurd representations of the expectations and realities of marriage. They portray the harsh truths that lie behind closed doors of what are supposed to be important characters during their times. Where Fitzgerald, presents a realistic image of American life in the 1920's throughout his novel of The Great Gatsby with the characters, like many people of that period, only care for money where becoming rich is their main objective. All of the…

such a thing. This really shows how Gatsby, even if only slightly, has actually changed the way Nick acts. I think this book is very good at displaying the character growth and mindset changes. The discrepancies (vocab word) between the before and after characters in this book aren’t very noticeable at some times, but I really think that this author did a good job in making the reader aware of it if the reader is looking. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in a time of…

Mitzi’s talking, because she’s always talking. My little sister, Mitzi-the-Wiki, boosted her cog capacities a month ago and might have the whole damn internet in her head. She says “Turicum” was Zurich’s maiden name, it was our town’s title back when we still spoke Latin and served as a Roman tax outpost. Now it’s the name of the nightclub we find ourselves waiting for, the promoters who hail from only the most affluent areas of the wealthiest, most technologically advanced metropolis on earth,…

The Great Depression Two sides of fashion • Poor vs very rich • Economic depression of Western world vs • 1930’s elegance, clothing trends determined by very wealthy, movie stars, celebrities, Hollywood • Combination: Simplicity & elegance The Great Depression on women’s fashion • Modesty both economically and culturally/fashionably • People felt less frivolous and adventurous with their clothing when enduring hard times; practical garments for daily wear • "Thrift is the spirit of the day.…

to appeal to like the flapper look for women and the Gangster looks of the men. It is more appropriate to dress the way people did back in the 1920’s. To start, roughly 100 years ago women and children often dressed in short skirts and bobbed hair. Even the boys of this time period had long hair at around newborn to 10 years old. once they turned that certain age they would begin to dress in a nice proper suit with shorter hair. A Lot of people don't particularly like the skirts or short shorts…

The 1920s was “For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the upsurge of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the country's Victorian past. Sexual mores, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a thinly veiled "cultural civil war," in which a…

The 1920s was 10 years of energizing social changes and significant social clashes. For some Americans, the development of urban areas, the rise of a consuming, the increase of mass entertainment, and the alleged "transformation in ethics and behavior" spoke to liberation from the limitations of the nation's Victorian past. Gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed significantly during the 1920s. Be that as it may for some others, the United States appeared to be changing in undesirable…